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UNWEEPING OR UNWEPT,
#Unwept, unhonored and unsung"
Were notthe worst of Fortunes bringing
Dread, rather, thine own eyes and tongue
Unweeping and unsinging.
Unweeping for thy brother, bound a
But struggling in the somber Night, x
Unsinging from thy vantage-ground dy
The happy tidings of the Light. ’
Weep and be sure thou shalt be wept.
Sing gladly, and the joy-sounds ringing
May wake some soul, which long hath slept,
To echo back thy singing.
Let fall thy tears! Let rise thy strain!
So canst thou never be among
Those heritors of man’s disdain,
The ‘““unwept, unhonored and unsung.”
—J. Edmund V. Cooke, in Independent.
Karl Hagenbeck's Adventures
ARL HAGEN-
BECK, the famous
dealer in animals,
and Istood by the
cage 2f boa con-
strictors and py-
thons in Ham-
burg. The huge |
croatureslay quiet
and still, with]
never a movement |
to tell the onlook- |
ers whether they |
were alive or dead.
“Ah!” sanid|
Karl, “I can tell |
you some curious
things about those snakes. That huge
boa constrictor,” he continued, point- |
ing to a snake that lay coiled up in a
corner by itself, ‘‘has swallowed four
whole sheep in one day, and nine days
nfterward it was ready for number five.
I can remember once we threw a rab-
bit into a cage where there were two |
snakes. While the poor little animal |
was shivering in a corner with fright |
the two reptiles fought together as to
which of them should eat it; the!
smaller one gained the victory, and |
the bigger one retired to the other end |
of the cage and lay down, as though |
wearied out by the conflict. The other |
snake advanced upon its prey, and af- |
ter a while it also lay down, with the |
rabbit inside it. The bigger snake |
then, seeing the helpless condition of |
its enemy, seemed to rouse itself, and
a moment afterwards it vigorously at-
tacked the creature that lay gorged in
the corner. We all rushed to see what
would happen, and, I declare to you,”
continued Mr. Hagenbeck, ‘‘that in a
very short time the big snake had
swallowed the small snake, rabbit and
all
' “Would you like to ses them in
action?” said Mr. Hagenbeck to me, and
as he spoke he opened the cage door
and boldly stepped in among the huge
sleepy beasts. He then began lifting
them up by their enormous coils, just
as one would lift up great coils of rope,
and there was soon a mighty stirring
amongst the inert masses. Furious and
enraged they writhed to and fro, their
scales glittering in the light of the
sun. With tremendous hissing and
irritated rearing back of their heads
and constant projection of their long,
forked tongues, they began to move
about the cage. ‘I think I will get
out now,” said Mr. Hagenbeck. “I
had a fight once before with snakes,
and I don’t want to have another,” he
continued as he closed the doors.
+ “I wish you would tell me about it,”
said I; ‘‘it must have been very
dreadfully interesting,” and also I felt
sure my American readers would enjoy
some good ‘snake’ stories.
“Certainly I will,” he replied, ‘“zand
I can assure you,” he added, with a
shudder at the thought, ‘‘that it was
most painfully interesting to me. I
very nearly lost my life on that occe-
sion. It happened in this way. There
were eight full grown pythons in one
cage. I wanted to put them all into
one huge box to send them off toa
menagerie. I handled the first six all
right enough, collaring them, as is
usual, by the back of the neck and!
dropping them into the box. Then I|
went for number seven. As soon as I |
entered the cage she flew at me with
oper: mouth, but seeing her coming I
took off my hat and thrust it at her,
and she bit her teeth into it. I then
collared her with the right hand at the |
back of the neck and dragged her |
down into the lower partition of the
cage. However, when I was going to
fetch her out she reared her head for
another attack. I then made a cautions
movement forward; at the same mo-
ment she darted her head at me. I
met the second attack with my hat in |
the same way as I did the first. I]
then got hold of her by the back of the |
neck, but I found. to my horror that
I couldn’t’let her go, as all at ance she
coiled herself around my legs.
“By good fortune one of my assist-
ants was standing near. I called for |
him and he came rushing up to me, |
knowing by the sound of my voice that |
there was something very dreadful the |
matter, and so indeed there was, for I
saw it was going to be a fight for life |
or death. However, I kept periectly |
cool and gave the order to my assist- |
ant to t: y and uncoil theserpent, which
he attempted to do as well as he pos- |
sibly could. I also managed to with- |
draw my legs from her coils. Then I |
dropped, holding her tight sll the!
time, as I was determined to get her
into the box, and I didn’t want to have |
allthat trouble for nothing,” continued |
the brave man as coolly as one could
possibly imagine. |
“However,” he went on, ‘I wasn’t | this was very troublesome.
out of the woods, even then, as you | him into a narrow cage which had an
English call it, for just as I thought I |
ug i
! whilst the hivppovotamus,
me {rom going back, each of them says
ing they would not do it. I felt very |
exhausted, but my temper was fairly |
up and I determined I wouldn’t be
beaten. So, after a few moments, I
stepped again into the cage, caughti
them both round the backs of their |
necks, dragged them as quickly as IT
could to the edge of the cage and then
between us we flung them into the box.
Had not my assistants been near me |
nothing could have saved me from be-
ing squeezed to death. Ah! it wasa
terrible adventure,” continued Mr.
Hagenbeck, ‘‘and I don’t want a simi- |
lar experience again. Now come and
look at my alligators and I will tell you
of an adventure I had with them.”
Passing by an enormous aviary, in
which fluttered and sereamed thou-
sands of beautiful parrots, we came at
last to a large tank in which wereslow- |
ly paddling round some spiteful look-
ing elligators. ‘“There,” said Mr.
Hagzenbeck, as he pointed to the cruel
looking beasts, ‘I had a ghastly ad- |
venture with them once. I had to |
pack sixteen of them up for the Dus-
seldorf Zoological Gardens. I grappled |
hold of the first one and was pulling |
him ashore, when he gave a frighful |
blow with his tail and knocked me into
the tank, where for a brief moment, I
was alone with fifteen alligators.
Those who were standing by told me
that as soon as I splashed in a number
of them made a rush. However, I was
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out again like an India rubber |
ball; but the whirl of the water and
the open jaws of the disappointed |
beasts told me that I had not been one
second too smart. This was a very
narrow escape as if one of the croco-
diles had happened to get hold of me,
all the rest would have attacked me,
snapping and biting at me at one and |
the same moment, until there would |
have been nothing left of me at all.
“Alligators are the most determined |
fighters even amongst themselves.
Six of them, each about fourteen feet
long, had a frighful fight amongst
themselves once, and so desperately
did they fight that within fourteen
days they were all dead. Three of
them hed their jaws broken, and in
some cases their legs were torn right
out of their bodies. This occurred at
night, and one of the keepers, happen-
ing to hear the frightful noise which
was made by the clashing of their jaws,
rushed off to tell me what was happen- |
ing. We lit our lanterns and hurried
to the scene of action, but beyond try-
ing to separate them with long peles it
was little we could do. They would
only renew the fight with greater
fierceness than ever, and so terribly |
were they weunded that, as I said, |
they were all dead in a fortnight. |
Now, when I get a new consignment |
of alligators I always muzzle them for |
four days with arope; they then calm |
down and I eut the rope off; other- |
wise, if I did not do that they would
begin fighting as soon as they came |
out of the box, for the first sight of
daylight after the long journey always
seem to excite them.
““A fight amongst the snakes, also,is
a terrible thing. I had once five big
pythons, each over sixteen feet long,
in one cage. One of the keepers flung
in a dead rabbit amongst them, and
two of them, being very hungry, at-
tacked it at once. At the same mo-
ment the other four flew at them and
in one moment all the six were in one
writhing lump. The keeper fetched
me and I at once attempted to uncoil
them. I succeeded but hardly had I
done so, when the fight began between
the first two. The larger one threw
his tail round the small one’s neck and
squeezed it with such force against the
wall that it lost all power, then the
bigger snake got hold of the rabbit
and swallowed it, after which it
gradually loosened its hold of the
smaller snake. Then came revenge;
the small snake flew at the big one,
which was rendered almost helpless by
its huge meal, bit it in the back,
coiled round and round it, and
squeezed it till it conld hardly breathe, |
although it screamed as I had never |
heard any living creature scream be- |
fore. When I went to see them next
morning they were all right and per-
fectly good friends.
““] was once turned out of bed at 1
o’cloek in the morning by one of my |
keepers, who came in with the news|
that the big kangaroo hed jumped a |
six-foot fence into the next stable, in |
which there was a large hippotamus.
When I came down there was a most |
wonderful fight zoing on. The kanga- |
roo stood up to his belly in water, |
with wide,
open jaws, snapped at him right and
left. However, the kangaroo managed
to ‘get in’ a good right and left with |
his iront legs, and scratched the hip- |
popotamus in the face tremendously. |
When the hipopotamus came to close
quarters, the kangaroo jumped up,
gave him a tremendous blow with his
hind lezs, and than managed to get on
to dry land. I ecanght the kangaroo
with a big net, and for all the fighting
there wasn’t very much harm done.”
Just as Mr. Hagenbeck finished talk-
ing, the polar bear at our rear begun
growling. Mr. Hagenbeck went up to |
soothe and pet him. Then he said to
me: ‘I expect Iam pretty nearly the
only man in the world who can say |
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that e ever eut the nails of =a
polar bear... Tt was this very beast, |
and I will tell you how it all happened. |
The poor beast’s nails had grown into
its foot, causing it a great deal of pain.
We tried to get the feet into a sling
and pull them through the bars, but
So I got
was getting away all right and could |side down so that the bear had to]
get her safely into the box the last | stand on the bars of the cage; then |
python inthe cage, atremendous giant,
also tried to attack me.
As soon as I | above the ground.
iron-barred front; this I turned Be |
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the cage was lifted up about four feet |
I went underneath |
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saw this I called out to my assistant to | with a sharp pair of pinchers, and as |
throw a blanket over her. This
managed to do.
I moved backwards out of the cage and | the nails out.
he | he stood there with his toes pressed |
At the same moment | through the bars I managed to pull |
Then I stood him in |
| table origin.
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{ bills.
**On another oceasion a royal Ben-
gal tiger was suffering very much from
toothache, so two of my men held him
by the collar and whilst one of my at-
tendants opened hismouth my brother-
in-law and I took some pinchers and
pulled out the teeth which had been
giving him so much pain, and which,
indeed, had grown so badly that they
properly.
“However, perhaps the most terrible |
| had hindered him from biting his food |
adventure that I ever had occurred in |
Munich during the Centennial fete in
1888. I was going in" a long proces-
sion with eight elephants, and the
streets were very erammed. Now, it
chanced that we had to pass a great
big iron dragon which, by some me-
chanical contrivance, began to spit fire
as soon as we got near it. Four of the
elephants at once took {right and ran
away, which
then the other four followed suit. The
people rushed after them wit sticks
and Jond cries, which really only made
matters worse. I managed to get be-
tween two of them and caught hold of
them, but it was of no good, as they
ran with me for at least a gmile, and I
was torn from side to side, and, in-
deed, at one moment I was nearly
crushed to death by them against the
walls of 2 house. At last two other
elephants came up and I managed to
persuade them all four to stand still.
Just as I had done so the stupid erowds
came rushing up, and away they went
again. I was too tired to do anything
more. All fonr of them rushed into a
house ; the bottom gave way, and they
fell into the cellar. A new house has
now been built there which is called to
this day ‘The Four Wild Elephants.’
| A lot of people were hurt; some, in-
deed, were killed, but, as the Police
President had seen all that happened,
I was held free of blame. Still it was
the most wonderful adventure I ever
{ had, and how I escaped being crushed
to death I cannot understand to this
day.” —Atlanta Constitution.
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Poiscnous Plants.
Trofessor Brooks teld the Massachu-
setts Horticultural Society, recently,
thet there are thirty-nine poisonous
plants in the United States which are
now or have been used in the treat-
ment of disease; many of the
most virulent poisons are of vege:
By far the greater num-
ber of vegetable poisons are alkaloids,
a few are acids and glucosides. Mor-
phine derived from the popy is one of
the best known alkaloids. One of the
most poisonous acids is oxalic acid;
the buttercups fnrnish examples of the
glucosides ; the pSisonous essential oils
are illustrated by the oil of hemlock,
tansy and juniper,
The lower orders of vegetable organ-
isms develop on such nitrogenious
foods as fish and meat an active poison
called ptomaines. The numerous in-
stances of illness and even death re-
sulting from eating mushrooms should
serve to cause the refusal of all kinds
not positively identified. The poetical
allusion to the peaceful cow producing
golden butter from having grazed on
the yellow buttercup, lacks truth, as
the buttercups are more or less pois-
onous and cows refuse to eat them.
A virulent poison is the essential oil
extracted from white mustard seeds.
The seed corn cockle sometimes ground
with grain Las been known to cause
injurious consequences. Oxalic acid
is not present in sorrel in such quanti-
ties as to render its moderate use in-
jurious, but the practice of children
eating these leaves should be discour-
aged. Death has followed from eating
the roots of the wild parsnip, which
are especially dangerous in the second
year. Children should be particularly
warned against eating the berries of
the black night shade. The poisonivy
is well known and is poisonous to most
persons. A thorough washing after a
botanical excursion is a preventative
of slight poisoning, and a bath in a
| weak solution of baking soda will often
act as an antidote. Some plants, like
the potato and celery, are poisonous in
wild state. The Japanese are
use eighty-four kinds of
plants for ‘‘greens” and have discov-
ered many poisonous species; their
workmen on lacquer often become vio-
lently poisoned from the vegetable
poisons in the polishes and varnishes,
— New England Farmer.
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Birth of England’s Great Bank.
The Bank of England was projected
in 1694 to meet the difficulty ex-
perienced by William IIL. in raising
funds for the French war. William
Paterson and Michael Godfrey induced
forty merchants to subscribe to a loan
of $6,000,000 to the Government at
eight per cent., the subscribers being
incorporated as a bank. The scheme
was opposed in Parliament, but the
bill passed and the charter was granted
July 27, 1694, Sir John Houblon being
the first Governor and Michael God-
frey the first Deputy Governor. The
bank began active operations July 1,
1695, issuing notes and discounting
The notes were for $100 and
upward and the usual rate of discount
| was six per cent.
A River Shunned by Indians,
The Wishkah River is shunned by all
Indians. Even when crossing from
| the Quiniault or Humptulips country
to the Wynooche they avoid crossing
the Wishkah by going around to the
north of its source. Their tradition is
that many ages ago some great eagle
captured an enormous whale on the
coast and carried it to the head waters
of the river, and that the whale’s de-
caying body poisoned the entire river,
so that a great epidemic came and
killed all the Indians living along the
stream, and the waters of the river are
dangerous even unto this day. From
this tradition the beautiful river has
its unsavory name, which in the Indian
got free of it altogether and then I had | water to wash and cool his wounds, | tongue, means ‘‘Stinking waters,”’—
a little rest. My men tried to dissuade |
and in a few davs he was all right.
Portland Oregonian.
was only natural, and
A PRET? FANCY.
A fancy has arisen for wearing a
bangle of jade, it being claimed that
the costly green material brings good
luck. By way of contrast to this la
mode ordains that there shall also be
a bangle of tortoise shell and one of
gold. The contrast is artistic and
tends to make the arm very white.—
New York Recorder.
AWA CLOTH FOR A SUMMER SKIRT.
Awa cloth is the latest material for
a summer skirt.. It is a substitute for
the silken petticoat. It is a cotton
cloth with a crimpled surface and
comes in shades of dark blue, gray and
black. The skirt when made with a
full ruffle is stiff enough to dispense
with the crinoline lining of a gown. It
washes well and does not need to be
ironed. Ready made it costs $5. —
New York World.
TINTED LACE.
A very popular fad just now takes
the form of tinted lace. Girls who are
at all clever with the paint brush color
the filmy garniture in shaded tones, in
this way securing a suitable trimming
for shot silk gowns. The shaded lace
is so very fetching that more than one
bright witted maiden has carried out
the coloring idea upon her other toilet
items. The fronts of silken hoisery
may be tinted exquisitely and shaded
gauze collarettes are attractive novel-
ties. —St. Louis Republic.
WOMEN IN THE ROLE OF LIBRARIANS.
Women have made a special success
m the training school for librarians
that has resulted from the present
system in vogue by the conductors of
the State Library at Albany. Three of
the great popular institutions of in-
struction, the Pratt in Brooklyn, the
Drexel in Philadelphia, and the Ar-
mour in Chicago, have all secured both
chief librarians and assistants from
recent graduates of the State Library
School. During the past month re-
guests for librarians came not only
from several parts of New York State,
but also from Tennessee, Minnesota,
Indiana, California, Montana, two
from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and
three from Illinois. Propositions
vere received also from New England
States regarding three others. One of
the young women employed at the
State Library has accepted a position
as assistant-librarian in Philadelphia
and another leaves this week to be-
come an assistant in the Helena (Mon-
tana) Public Library. Few of the
general public know of this new avenue
open for women’s work, or that such a
profession has evolved a regular school
for training its members. —Baltimore
Sun.
AN INDIAN GIRL NURSE.
There is in one of the great hospitals
of New York a full blooded Indian girl
acting as a nurse in the woman’s ward.
She has the black hair and physiogno-
mical peculiarities of her race, is pretty
with the bloom of youth, tall and lithe
of figure and of most prepossessing ap-
pearance. She has been thoroughly
educated at Hampton Institute and at
training school and has all the advan-
tages of an educated and intelligent
Woman.
I am told by the ex-patient of the
hospital that the wild blood of this
Minnehaha of the pill and pestleshows
but in one way, and that rather an ad-
vantagein a room where there are sick
women. At night her tread is abso-
lntely inaudible. She moves as quietly
as her great-great-grandfather might
have done on the quest for scalps—
much as a cat does when there is for-
bidden cream in sight. During the
day her step is no more noiseless than
that of other women, though always
light and springy.
It might not be a bad idea for some
benevolent person to train up a whole
lot of Indian girls for a gainful oeccu-
petion, to which they seem so well
adapted by inheritance.—New York
Press.
THE MOST POPULAR MATERIAL.
Tt appears to be an established fact
of fashion that the most popular ma-
terial is to be grenadine. It is to be
grenadine of a very soft, fine make
which we are to patronize, and it is
grenadine beautifully petterned with
silken flowers in various colors.
These fabrics are to be made lined
with a light-colored silk, and in the
simplest fashion, trimmed with a little
jet or colored ribbon. The chine
silks and the light-grounded silks,
with merely pin spots and narrow
stripes upon them, will share our at-
tention with these grenadines, and
light colors will be very much worn
this summer.
Of course the crepon is not to be
neglected; it is far too charming a
material for us to cast it aside yet
awhile. But the most attractive ma-
terial of this description is now en-
tirely made of silk, and is of a very
fine, soft texture, by no means inex-
pensive; but, then, what that is
really nice is inexpensive in these en-
dghtened days? It is becomingrather
popular to trim the hems of skirts
wish vandykes of satin ribbon, and it
is good to know that far from the fnl-
| aess of the skirts increasing, it has
already commenced to be diminished.
—New York Journal.
FASHION NOTES.
A season of ruffling may be safely
predicted.
Three gold safety bars connected by
chains are for children’s blouses.
‘White gloves have returned to favor
for morning as well as evening wear.
A new material for the autumn sea-
son is called Puritan, and is kind of a
frise velvet.
The latest craze in jeweled orna-
ments for bonnets and the hair is a
diamond bat.
Bluish violet shades are now taking
better in Paris than the reddish violet
craze now here.
Pretty straw hats in pale violet are
trimmed with gold lace, green velvet
and a single pink rose.
Linen tatting makes an exceedingly
pretty trimming for morning dresses
for both women and children.
The latest parasols are made of lace
and lined with rainbow chiffon, and
have gold mountings on the handle.
Real lace veils, of the large old fash-
ioned size which delighted our grand-
‘mothers, are coming into style again.
The new silver bracelets are charm-
ing in design and workmanship. One
variety is made up of woven wire and
ends in tassels.
Black organdies have clusters of
cherries, unripe blackberrigs and holly-
berries tossed gracefully on their sheer
black surfaces.
In spite of all rumors to the con-
trary, skirts continue to be made close
fitting at the top, unless for thin or
summer materials.
The many navy blue traveling and
outing suits that" will be fashionable
this summer should be worn with dark
red gloves in harmonious contrast.
Charming necklaces of silver are
worn with fine chains netted together.
They cannot fail to be popular with
young girls with their summer gowns.
The ‘‘round table skirt,” which is
cut out of goods five yards wide, and
has no seam, is at present the most
popular one. Nothing surpasses this
in fit. :
Linen tatting, in the new intricate
and really beautiful patterns, makes
an exceedingly pretty trimming for
morning dresses for both women and
children.
To restore the brightness of steel but-
tons, buckles and other small articles
made from this metal, it has some-
where been recommended to use un-
slaked lime.
The siveet pea blossom tints are very
popular in shot silk toilets for next
season, made wholly of this material
or used for princesse slips under lace
or net dresses.
Pretty bedroom slippers are of felt
or velvet, with warm flannel linings
and trimmings of soft, dark fur. Under
ordinary slippers they have a moderate
heel and rather smart toe.
Wtite kid and suede sailor hats are
new this season, but straw takes the
lead, with quills for trimming, while a
more fancy sailor has roses around the
crown and under the brim.
A pretty ides for a bridesmaid’s cos-
tume is a gown of soft white silk with
pale green sash and shoulder cape of
white lace; large white leghorn hat
trimmed with yellow tea roses and
green foliage.
The popular veil is finished with
three narrow rows of ribbon velvet
run through the mesh. Other new
veils are covered with chenille dots,
and purple and grass greenare the pre-
vailing colors.
Silks and satins are used for every
imaginable article of dress this year,
and the colors are lovelier than ever,
while watered silks, which have been
produced generally in solid colors, are
now seen in changeable hues.
The wide skirts must be supported
and to this end are provided under
petiicoats of grass cloth, sateen,
moreen and linen canvas, which have
flaring flounces that answer the same
purpose that the tilting hoopskirt dn-
sWers.
Aniong the new trimmings for sum-
mer dresses are laces having the em-
broidery and scollops on both sides
alike. They are either laid flat on the
dress or are shirred through the cen-
ter. thus giving something of the ruche
effect.
English walking gloves to be used
with promenade costumes come in all
the cloth shades to match toilets.
Gloves for the street fasten smoothly
over the wrist by four or five buttons
and are made with pique-stitched
seams.
If you are going to the sea shore,
get a Tom O”Shanter. They are such
comfortable things, and the occasions
will be many when you will find a
chance to wear one. The prettiest are
of white angora wool, lined with silk
and with a silk pompon.
Clear white muslin is used for dresses
which are worn over colored silk.
The skirt is of three deep flounces with
wide hems and colored ribbon run in
the hems. Waist of silk, draped over
with muslin, and a broad, soft sash of
the color at the waist.
CURIOUS FACTS.
In every country consumption kills
more victims than any other one dis-
ease.
Greek sculptors often used eyes ot
glass or crystal in the faces of their
statues.
Shanghai, Chins,
death rate from heart disease,
per 10,000.
Down to the days of Appelles,
Greeks knew but four colors—white,
red, yellow and black.
The Emperor of China chooses his
own successor, and is not confined to
his family in making the choice.
The Mohawk Indians will not allow
so much as a blade of grass to grow
upon the graves of their companions.
The origin of the letters 1b, gen-
erally used as an abbreviation for
pound, is the Latin word libra, which
means a pound.
In Moscow, Russia, the winter cold
is so intense that it freezes quicksilver,
while the summer: temperatnre is as
high as that of Naples, Italy.
In Bengal, India, there are three
harvests reaped every year; peas and
oil seeds in April, the early rice crop
in September and the great rice crop
in December.
A tooth weighing 57 pounds and
measuring 34 inches in width and nine
inches long was found on the farm of
Gotlieb Shultze, near Dallas City, Ill.
It is regarded as a very rare specimen
of mastodon tooth.
Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, which
is claimed to be the largest spring in
the world, is seventy feet deep, with a
diameter of nearly 200 feet. 65,000
cubic feet of water gush forth every
minute, producing 1000 horse power.
Sim Ghibbins, of White County,
Georgia. was chased by a coachwhip
snake, and had to climb a tree in
order to elude the reptile, The snake,
however remained at the base of the
tree for quite a while, as if waiting for
him to come down.
In 170 years after the death of
Christ the whole Bible had beer trans-
lated into Latin by some unknown
author into what is now known as the
old italic version. By the year 200 it
was extant in Greek, Syriac and Latin,
and by the Ninth Ceutury in thirteen
languages.
The largest canal in the world is
the Imperial Canal of China. Its
length is 2100 miles, and it con-
nects forty-one cities along its banks.
The canal was completed in 1350, 600
years after its construction was com-
menced. Its traffic is greater than
that of any canal in the world.
People should never go in the early
morning to get boots and shoes fitted.
In the latter part of the day the feet
are at their maximum size. Activity
and standing tend to enlarge the feet.
If people would remember this rule
there would not be so many complaints
of shoes when worn being tight
which, when fitted, seemed so comfort-
able.
The first test of the air pump was
made in 1654 by its inventor, Otto
von Guericke, in the presence of Em-
peror Ferdinand of Germany. Gue-
ricke applied the carefully ground
edges of two metallic hemisnheres, two
feet in diameter, to each other. After
exhausting the air by his apparatus he
attached fifteen horses to each hemi-
sphere. In vain did they attempt to
separate them because of the enormous
pressure of the atmospheres. The ex-
periment was a great sucesss.
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Architecture at the World’s Fair.
The buildings surrounding the Court
of Honor are classic, but they are il-
luminated at numberless points by
picturesqueness and animation, by
color and lightness. Taken in one
comprehensive view, they have also
something peculiarly modern in a sky
line full of graceful modulations and
abrupt, telling transitions; this in
spite of the practical uniformity of the
cornice height. The latter is not dis-
turbed; itis made, if anything, more
effective by the soaring dome of the
Administration Building, the lower,
but equally graceful roots of Machinery
Hall, which are given further variety
by little turrets on the pavilions at the
corners of the building, and by the
beautiful line which indicates the
curve of the rotunda ceiling in the
Agricultural Building.
There is charm in the outline and in
the mass, 8 mingling of dignity with
piquancy in the Court of Honor as if
is seen from the top of the Administra-
tion Building. The charm is there
when the vision is directed over the
Machinery and Agricultural buildings,
the former alive with winged Victories
on its roofs, the latter crowned with
the Diana of Mr. St. Gaudens. It is
there when the eye travels straight
down the center of the court, and sees
between the majestic facades Mr.
French’s noble statue of the Republic,
end behind it the peristyle bearing
above its massive columns the Colum-
bus quadriga, a triumphal group loom-
iug superbly against the summer sky.
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Pacific Fisheries,
The oldes: industry of the Atlantic
coast, the fisheries, is the newest of
the Pacific. Until a few years ago the
fisnermen on the northern coasts of
California paid no attention to the
vast quantities of sturgeon and halibut
there, regarding them as worthless,
and it is only within two or three
years that the majority of places fur:
ther north and down the southern
coast row making money in fish have
paid any attention whatever to the in-
dustry. Last year 6,000,000 pounds
of sturgeon were taken from the Co-
lnmbia River and shipped east, and
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this one kind of fish went east fron
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